The play became slower and slower.
And then when the heroin, or the downer drugs, came into the body, the speech became slower, and the blinking became slower".
Under Eno's watch, "Uncontrollable Urge" became slower and tranquillized — it moved with an unnecessarily light swing.
As Friendster became more popular, its overwhelmed Web site became slower.
About ten minutes in, Satie's music became slower, dirge-like, and darkness began to permeate the dance.
His music became slower and more enveloping in the electronic "Contacts" (1960) and in "Moments" for solo soprano, choir, brass, percussion and electric organs (1964).
Reputedly derived from the French folk dance branle de Poitou, the court minuet used smaller steps and became slower and increasingly etiquette-laden and spectacular.
Frost's voice never ceased to intrigue: he developed something called the Frost Drawl, a way of speaking that became slower and whose clarity diminished as it extended its global reach.
Soon Mr. Khan grew blank-eyed and dreamy, and as his blinks became slower he blended right in -- the latest addition to Jalalabad Psychiatric Hospital's living inventory of the effects of nearly a quarter-century of Afghan war.
One difficulty of running an opera house, he explained, is that plans often have to be made years in advance, and over the years the Met became slower and more inflexible than some other opera houses, like London's Royal Opera House, for example.
After that, the decrease became slower.
